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Oxo cube en · NOUN

Etymology

Genericized trademark of Oxo cube, a brand of stock cubes. The rhyming slang sense is by rhyme with the Tube.

Meanings

1. (Ireland, UK) Synonym of stock cube or bouillon cube (“a small cube, consisting of dry ingredients, that can be dissolved to make a broth or soup stock”)

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
OXO		alternative	lexicographic
oxo		alternative	lexicographic
oxo cube		alternative	lexicographic
OXO cube		alternative	lexicographic
Oxo cubes	Number=Plur		lexicographic
Oxo		alternative	lexicographic

Synonyms

stock cube or bouillon cube

wikipedia: Oxo (food)

Oxo cube en · PROPN

Etymology

Genericized trademark of Oxo cube, a brand of stock cubes. The rhyming slang sense is by rhyme with the Tube.

Meanings

1. (Cockney, slang) The London Underground rail network.
   • On the Oxo Cube to London 1993, Verbatim, volumes 20-21, page 21:
   • For instance, on the oxo cube 'tube' the weasler or porter has changed into the less descriptive stationman […] 1981, Peter Wright, Cockney Dialect and Slang, page 74:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
OXO		alternative	lexicographic
oxo		alternative	lexicographic
oxo cube		alternative	lexicographic
the Oxo cube		canonical	lexicographic
Oxo		alternative	lexicographic
OXO cube		alternative	lexicographic

Deriveds

up the Oxo Tower · the job is oxo

wikipedia: Oxo (food)